Envelope, facade, and off-site
By collaborating closely and planning ahead, we create innovative envelope solutions that are market-ready.
What we offer
Designing high-performance, sustainable envelopes
- Multifunctional envelopes: smart glazing, active façades, solar protection, greening
- Parametric and multi-criteria design: biomimicry, eco-design, frugality
- Decision-making and specification tools: dimensioning, configuration and enhancement
Modelling complex façades
- Advanced engineering and digital tools
- Customised digital modelling
- Regulatory thermal assessment and support in obtaining Title V certification
Evaluate, test and ensure reliability
- Calibration and validation of numerical models
- Environmental performance assessment: FDES, PEP and configurators
- Performance monitoring at scale 1 and in real environments
Supporting market launch
- Technical assessment to obtain insurability for innovative products
- Industrialisation: quality management, off-site, layout planning
- Pilot projects: interfacing with project managers, project owners and contractors
Our facilities
Test benches
- BEF (facades and envelope elements)
- O3BET (Open Access Open Data Open Source Building Envelope Testbed),
- Air-Water-Ventilation (AEV)
Instrumentation of real experimental sites
- On-site performance monitoring and analysis
- IR thermography
- IPMVP
- BEMServer
Accreditation for technical and environmental assessments
- ATec, ATEx, ETN, ETPM
- CE marking
- Digital passport
- Title V
- FDES, PEP
Advanced modelling and internal development
- WUFI
- COMSOL
- EnergyPlus and Pleiade
- T-Splines, Grasshopper and Inventor
- Modelica and OMPython
- Internal developments: dimensioning tools, FDES configurators, etc.